Note from the Editors: If we were a tree, and we fell in the forest, we would insist all the other trees make noise. Why? Because we love mamtatat-ing them metaphors. Huh? Mn?

My Story: Addis Lullabies… more stories from a city that changed a generation…

Revelation: When you try so hard to pray, it's just not your knees which buckle… your soul either shatters or shutters…

Life Diaries: Ere Qoi… fellow who? Klee stories what? And doesn't FGM stand for FitSum Gedel Megbat??

Water Colors: What is the color of water? A canvass of the different shades of H2O…

God Dog It!: MerEt larashu is one thing… but what happens when your suburban neighbor annexes your land? Of dogicide, Koteliks and falling off the bed…

Work Log: Just when you thought there was no hope… Ethiopians stretch their hands…

: The universe in chaos…

SELEDA Berenda: The faces of the people who are us…

In Poetry…
Soul/Food: Can art and poetry fill your stomach?
What Am I?: If a minute had passed, would we be who we still are?
It Would be Nice: Picking up the bones of a dead son…

Setting the Table: When it comes to our parents, can we love our differences even as we dislike what makes us different…

I Love My Father: A Vent: The amnesia of forgetting on whose back we climbed...

DC Epilogue: Remembering DC in the 80's… do we have to?

SELEDA Salutes: Yay… More things and people we like other than our dog walker and… Mamitu's CHeCHebssa, Mamitu's TeJ and,well, Mamitu...

SELEDA Fundraiser: Who's your legal guardian? Huh? Huh? Proof that we can make a difference if we try…

SELEDA Top Ten: Top ten Ethiopian equivalents for Hallmark greeting cards...

SELEDA Chat: In case you thought we were psychotic… wait.. we are. But thankfully there are others just like us and us and us…

Backpage: In honor of father's day, Dr. Raselas and Shurruba Z reunite via email... Saaa-pppyyyyy!

Do the Right Thing: Take a deep breath, think of your blessings… and then share...

Cover image courtesy of IES Museum at Addis Ababa University.